TransMac from Acute Systems is Windows software that is PC can duplicate and handle files and files on Apple drives and products, including Mac-formatted hard drives, flash drives, along with other storage space services and products, as well as available and burn disc images and .dmg and .sparseimage files. It’s shareware that you could take to free of charge for 15 days. Present updates include a file that is enhanced is open, price improvements, and Windows 8 compatibility.

The win is Win and Mac is Mac, and never the twain shall satisfy: is that everything you have heard? Well, possibly there’s some truth to it, especially when it comes to devising compatibility. While Mac users are most likely justified in claiming their OS and machines are better at handling the other side’s material, there exists room for improvement at both ends.

You can install TransMac as a ZIP file or a file that is executable the program that is installed identically in either situation. This system’s installer provides the setup that is several, too, such as file associations. TransMac’s graphical user interface is ordinary but user-friendly, numerous thanks in component from what is most likely the most familiar and design that is efficient, the classic toolbar/sidebar/main screen design that is explorer-style. TransMac provides its simple variants in the theme, with toolbar icons that stay concealed but outlined until needed, a tree-view disk menu within the sidebar that is left-hand and draggable line headings in the file list that is main. The Alternatives list includes Computer that is separate Mac settings, plus General Settings that include choices for certainly certainly one of TransMac’s extras, the capability to burn discs. We regularly expect a help that is decent with shareware, and TransMac has one, including a Quick Start guide with plenty of screenshots and, particularly useful, a Troubleshooting Guide.

We ran TransMac on a Windows 7 PC, after which attached a Mac-formatted drive that is removable is hard our second unit. Transmac works like File Explorer. We’re in a position to cut, copy, paste, drag, and fall, delete, and zip or unzip Mac files and folders to and from our Computer, and vice versa. There are lots of quirks, which will be and then be expected when Mac and Win get together. But TransMac makes them play nicely for a change.